Alert archive / Maryland / 1998
Weather alerts in Maryland, April 1998
19 weather alerts in April 1998, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 19
- Warnings
- 15
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- April 17, 19987 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 7:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 1, 8:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore, Harford | 48 min |
| Apr 1, 8:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Prince George's | 31 min |
| Apr 1, 9:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel | 32 min |
| Apr 1, 9:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cecil | 49 min |
| Apr 1, 9:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cecil | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 10:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Somerset | 35 min |
| Apr 9, 1:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calvert, Charles, Dorchester, Saint Mary's, Somerset, Wicomico and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 9, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Worcester | 16 min |
| Apr 17, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 17, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Montgomery | 28 min |
| Apr 17, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Montgomery | 35 min |
| Apr 17, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Howard | 49 min |
| Apr 17, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cecil | 48 min |
| Apr 17, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel, Prince George's | 49 min |
| Apr 17, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Queen Anne's | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 1:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Garrett | 9 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Garrett | 9 hr |
| Apr 19, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Saint Mary's, Somerset, Worcester | 6 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 13 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cecil County5
- Somerset County5
- Worcester County5
- Anne Arundel County4
- Montgomery County4
- Prince George's County4
- Saint Mary's County4
- Baltimore County3
- Calvert County3
- Charles County3
- Dorchester County3
- Harford County3
- Howard County3
- Queen Anne's County3
- Wicomico County3
- Caroline County2
- Carroll County2
- Frederick County2
- Kent County2
- Talbot County2
- City of Baltimore2
- Garrett County2
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.